The NZ Herald's Simon Collins has uncovered another anomaly;
The household labour force survey shows that the total unemployed aged 15 to 19 actually rose from 23,900 in December 1999 to 26,100 last December. This represented only a slight drop in percentage terms from 15.9 per cent to 14.3 per cent of all those in the age group who were working or seeking work.
But.....Benefit figures released last week show that the number of 18- and 19-year-olds on the unemployment benefit plunged from 15,855 in December 1999 to just 1566 last month.
From the published data it is impossible to tell how many 15-19 year-olds are on other forms of welfare. The best I can offer is, in December 2006 46,722 18-24 year-olds were on a main benefit. An even distribution across the age-bands would provide 13,349 18-19 year-olds. The number is almost certainly lower than that with the distribution being weighted to higher age bands.
Still, that's where some of the unemployed can be accounted for - on benefits other than the dole.
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Years ago I worked for a large Company that employed a couple of "filing clerks".
One was threatened to be fired for some long forgotten reason.
This person was pretty pissed off and looking for another job.
In the meantime she carried on filing, or rather, was ingeniously miss-filing.
There was a system for this and the volume was huge.
The impact was of course great and only those that knew the system could find anything.
I believe that starting with George Hawkins with Police crime stats, hospital waiting lists, DB-P in the Dole/Sickness/Invalids/Workplace education juggling, NCEA pupil reporting, Jail sentencing/parole/
home detention/reintegration time
are part of this deliberate miss-filing of reports.
The express purpose is to hide information.
Note that "only those who know the system can find anything"..
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